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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #50 on: February 19, 2009, 08:08:22 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 19, 2009, 12:50:58 AM
My initiating this thread got me to  Googling -- I found a ste for my old HS and people stupid enough to maintain it.

The links alone are hilarious.  There is exactly ONE alumnus who is "famous" and the site sorta missed the fact he was imprisoned for corruption.   The rest of the links go to pay to sign up sites.

I am still LOL.  What a bunch of losers, staying in touch with their meaningless past.

But it is a damn funny read.


Did you get picked on alot Free?I know you've admitted to being a nerd and in the past you have said you are not the biggest guy in the world! Could it be that you had a bad experience as a teenager and are now just extremely bitter? I've read your posts in this thread and as much as you say it was meaningless it really wasn't to you! Let it go dude! It was a long time ago! :cheersmate:
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #51 on: February 19, 2009, 08:18:54 AM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on February 19, 2009, 08:08:22 AM
Did you get picked on alot Free?I know you've admitted to being a nerd and in the past you have said you are not the biggest guy in the world! Could it be that you had a bad experience as a teenager and are now just extremely bitter? I've read your posts in this thread and as much as you say it was meaningless it really wasn't to you! Let it go dude! It was a long time ago! :cheersmate:

Frankly, no.  I was only in HS for a few years anyway and was a GDI when I was there.

I guess I don't understand why people like on that TV show care about who was whom in HS.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #52 on: February 19, 2009, 08:33:25 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 19, 2009, 08:18:54 AM
Frankly, no.  I was only in HS for a few years anyway and was a GDI when I was there.

I guess I don't understand why people like on that TV show care about who was whom in HS.
So you have absolutely no friends from High School at all?
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #53 on: February 19, 2009, 08:35:39 AM »
I went to a small county school, and still keep in touch with some of them.  I even work with a few people that also went to the same school.   The sad thing is seeing familiar names in the obituaries.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #54 on: February 19, 2009, 08:46:10 AM »
Ok, all kidding aside free, it's like this: emotional connections with other people give value to our lives. Because of this, it is not unusual that we value the emotional connections made THROUGHOUT our lives. Quite frankly, I'd be wary of befriending someone who could so compartmentalize a friendship based on the point they are in their lives. Friends don't stop being friends because we no longer inhabit the same physical location, nor are most people incapable of forming other friendships along the way just because they still have some connections with friendships when they were kids.

Sometimes it is enjoyable to step back in time and reminisce: consider it like looking through an old photo album or sharing old tall tales with family at Thanksgiving dinner. If someone ONLY lives in that time, you'd have a point, but most people are not that myopic as to live their lives for and in their past. They enjoy it for what it is and appreciate their friends for who and where they are now. Their lives flow and relationships aren't discarded just because they change jobs, spouses, or whatever. I think you are mistaking reminiscing here and there with living in that moment perpetually. People can remember things without being consumed by that particular time.


Maybe this makes it a little clearer...


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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #55 on: February 19, 2009, 09:10:56 AM »
Well, that was 46+ years ago and I do....uh....uhroh....remember several incidents... :rotf:
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #56 on: February 19, 2009, 09:11:08 AM »
 :thinking:

Good stuff, jty.

I graduated in 1974, pretty much at the peak of the Baby Boomer crowd. Something like 750 in my graduating class, the vast majority of whom I wouldn't know if they walked up to me and spit on me.

I was a band geek, when I wasn't skipping school and/or smoking dope in the parking lot. I certainly didn't take HS seriously and knew enough to know I'd never make it college the traditional way. So I said screw the "college prep" courses and screw the GPA. Even still, I wound up with something like a 3.2.

Anyway, I also knew I wouldn't be in the area all that long. Didn't have a clue what I'd do or where I'd go following HS, I just knew I didn't want to do it there.

Then the Army came along, about 6 months after HS, and I used it to springboard my way past my childhood and HS, though once in awhile I run into somebody I knew from those days.

So I find myself, some 14 years after retirement from the Army, being somewhat reminiscent of my experiences there and I enjoy being involved in two different fraternal organizations.

Yeah, free, you sound somewhat bitter.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #57 on: February 19, 2009, 09:54:02 AM »
I graduated in 77'. Put me in the "don't give a shit" catagory.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #58 on: February 19, 2009, 09:56:19 AM »
My class's 20 year reunion is theoretically coming up this year.

Anybody want to bet on where the needle of my "rat's ass"-o-meter is pointing in reference to that subject?

Everything I needed to know may have been learned in Kindergarten, but everything that I have done in my life that has mattered the most to me, occurred after collecting my parchment from that hellhole that is the modern public school system and getting the hell outta dodge.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #59 on: February 19, 2009, 10:20:09 AM »
I'm like Eupher. I was a band geek but I DID take all of the college prep classes. Somehow, I made the B honor roll a few times and I STILL don't know how I managed that. Going to Trig, Calculus and physics class stoned or drunk sure didn't help. I have a few friends that I went to high school with, even now. I was far from "popular". I DID have some fun and some fond memories of high school. I have some not so fond memories, too. I joined the Navy right after high school, so I left this podunk town right away.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #60 on: February 19, 2009, 10:26:09 AM »
High school was almost a 4 year blur. I started out on the football and wrestling teams, got in a lot of trouble while in school, a few fights, gypping a lot, and finally pulling my head out of my ass the last year of HS and graduating.

While I think about it, college wasn't that much different. Just a bigger party.  :-)
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #61 on: February 19, 2009, 10:46:18 AM »
I enjoyed high school, HATED elementary school.  I had dyslexia (mirror imaging they called it) and couldn't read by the time I was in third grade.  My Mom tried every year since I started school to hold me back and the school told her I was fine.  Then came 3rd grade and the school suggested I be held back finally.  :whatever: I seriously was traumatized.  I remember what I wore the first day of 3rd grade (the second time around) as well as everything that happened that first day.  It was mortifying.

They had an "everyone at their own pace" type of thing going on.  Take spelling, you would have to retake each "unit" until you passed the spelling test and there was a chart on the wall that showed how far you were.  EVERYONE knew where I was on the chart (always last).  It really hurt my self-esteem having all the other kids know my progress (or lack there of). It would be one thing if I was just screwing off and that was why I wasn't doing well but I had a learning disability.  Then in 5th grade we moved and suddenly I "blossomed" in school and had none of the issues I had up until that point.  I think before the move I had talked myself into thinking I was stupid.  When we moved, no one knew about my dyslexia or that I was held back.  Things just started clicking for me. 

I remember high school as being fun but then I met my husband the week I turned 15 so maybe that is why I have such fond memories of high school.  One thing I find that is funny is since I started my facebook account a ton of high school friends (and some that I don't even remember) have been in contact with me.  They are remembering things that I have NO memory of.  Either I just didn't care about it at the time so I don't remember it or the stroke I had back in 95 really screwed my memory more than I thought.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #62 on: February 19, 2009, 11:09:45 AM »
I have regets about HS.  Mainly because I was a prick to so many people.  I was a jock and an asshole, I loved to intimidate other kids.   Another regret that I have is that I did not apply myself to my school work.  I got by with decent grades with no effort; a little more effort would have opened some nice doors.  My focus was sports, getting scholarships and the attention of the big sports schools. Finally, I had this girl who was incredibly smart in my class.  She was  rather plain looking, very quiet and incredibly shy...yet for some reason she had this huge crush on me.  I would hardly give her the time of day.  Years later I ran into her and for a moment I did not recognize her.  She was gorgeous, tan, nice hair, definitely centerfold quality...unfortunately she had a huge rock on her finger and was taken. 
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #63 on: February 19, 2009, 11:13:29 AM »
You forgot to add the obligatory, "TEH JOOOOOOOSSSS!" as a possible response.

Other than that, I went to HS.  I was a geek.

Hell, I still AM a geek.  I made the mistake of going to my 20th reunion.  Nobody had changed, and everyone gravitated back to their old cliques.  IOW, imagine the people you knew in HS older, fatter, married, then divorced. 
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #64 on: February 19, 2009, 11:14:32 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on February 18, 2009, 11:01:41 PM
I honestly don't understand why any grown-up would care about their HS days.  I really don't.

But I have to admit it is fun watching these people who never grew up keep silly 20+ year old meaningless memories alive.

I look at it this way--if your HS days were the crowning achievement of your existence, YOU ARE A LOSER AND SHOULD REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THE GENE POOL IMMEDIATELY.

That is all.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #65 on: February 19, 2009, 12:44:25 PM »
Sparky, after I returned home, I looked up some of my old high school friends. I was shocked to see how many of them have aged (we're all in our early 50s). One of my best friends in high school looks every bit of 60, if not older!!  :o I'm like......... damn, what happened to y'all?!?!?!?!? This is a pic of me taken right at a year ago:



Of course, I've put on some weight since then.... (No, I DON'T use any hair coloration formulas!!)
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #66 on: February 19, 2009, 01:02:24 PM »
Where's your toothpick, Thor?

 :rotf:

And straw hat?

 :lmao:

(actually, it's a pretty good pic. You clean up well.  :cheersmate: )
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #67 on: February 19, 2009, 01:28:18 PM »
Can't remember the comedian who said this, but it summed things up perfectly for me:

"The people you went to high school with who were @ssholes are still @ssholes."


I went to one reunion, my 10th, and will never go to another. It's the same bunch from way back then, except for the dead ones.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #68 on: February 19, 2009, 01:32:50 PM »
Never went to a reunion. Was always either overseas or out of the freakin' state.

Next one up should be the 35th later this summer. Dunno if they're gonna host one - I sure as hell ain't.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #69 on: February 19, 2009, 01:38:40 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on February 19, 2009, 01:02:24 PM
Where's your toothpick, Thor?

 :rotf:

And straw hat?

 :lmao:

(actually, it's a pretty good pic. You clean up well.  :cheersmate: )


At least I don't look as old as you, Eupher !!! (and you're only a year or two older)  :tongue:
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #70 on: February 19, 2009, 01:47:37 PM »
Quote from: Thor on February 19, 2009, 01:38:40 PM
At least I don't look as old as you, Eupher !!! (and you're only a year or two older)  :tongue:

Yeah, I gotta lot of gray on the head, and it's somewhat sparse to boot.

And we ain't gonna talk about my dunlop.  :p
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #71 on: February 19, 2009, 03:18:16 PM »
I remember. Don't really care much since high school was long ago.
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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #72 on: February 19, 2009, 03:54:44 PM »
I found out today that a girl I went to elementary and high school with became a model and posed for Playboy...  :naughty:
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« Reply #73 on: February 19, 2009, 06:28:36 PM »
Quote from: Mike220 on February 19, 2009, 03:54:44 PM
I found out today that a girl I went to elementary and high school with became a model and posed for Playboy...  :naughty:



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C'mon, everyone wanted to do it, I just got here first.

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Re: Do you even REMEMBER High School?
« Reply #74 on: February 19, 2009, 06:43:47 PM »
High School totally sucked....I was friends with Sweet Dee.    :-)



Ehh it was okay.  I'm honestly not friends with but a few people from high school.  I didn't mind high school, but it's not like I was to relieve it or even hell do it all over again.  I was active in the orchestra, editor-in-chief of the yearbook and managing editor of the literary magazine (yet I wasn't a dork).  It was a large high school (the largest single school high school in Texas) so there were plenty of people and none of that clique crapola. 
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